Over 900 male recruits from Kericho County have successfully secured employment in the building and construction industry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following a successful two- day's recruitment exercise held at the Kericho Township Technical and Vocational College (KERITTVC). This follows the government announcement last year to recruit skilled youth nationwide for overseas jobs. The State Department for Technical, Vocational Education and Training engaged four recruitment agencies that presented themselves at KERITTVC notably Blue Wave International Services Limited, Raytoria, Al Suwedi International Recruitment Agency Limited and Loivin recruitment, all duly registered under the National Employment Authority (NEA) that identified the skills needed in UAE where the youths are destined to work. In an interview with KNA at the end of the exercise held at the institution, Principal Shadrack Tonui said over 1, 000 recruits with skills in carpentry, masonry, electrical engineering, plumbing, steel fixing, among others turned up for the interviews with 900 qualifying to work in UAE. "Today we have actually been able to register more than 1, 200 youths with different skills and trade areas ranging from carpentry, electrical engineering, masonry, plumbing, scaffolding, waterproofing technicians, general laborers, AC duct men and others. 900 youths were successful among them were 20 youths from this institution.
We are happy that this exercise has actually shed light on the need for more youth to engage in training in our TVET institutions and so it gives us a signal that this is a good initiative by the government in ensuring the youth actually secure employment even outside the country, "said Tonui. He added that four employment agencies not only conducted oral but also practical interviews to check on the technical capability of the recruits while appealing to those who passed the rigorous recruitment exercise to positively represent Kenya in the UAE. "The employment agencies from Abu Dhabi were very strict when it came to the practicals in the skilled areas.
A good number of youths actually qualified because they were actually already practicing their skills.
The next thing we are praying is that when they actually go out of the country, they represent us well.
